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RWood · 03-03-2009, 10:23 AM

Here in Virginia cigarettes are still "reasonable" so a lot of folks stock up here and then sell them in higher tax areas like Maryland, Penn, New Jersey, and New York. There is a major underground economy in cigarette smuggling and every time they raise the price the smuggling gets worse.

They (who ever "they" are) have all of these wonderful studies that say that bar and restaurant business will increase if smoking is banned, they fail to realize that each owner already has the right to decide that issue for themselves. Many restaurants in this area are "no smoking" by their own decision. Many also fear to implement that ban because they know that their patrons will just move elsewhere. When Maryland passed a statewide ban many Maryland restaurants near the Maryland-DC line closed because their patrons simply moved to one on the DC side where they could smoke.

We smoked in class when I was in college -- even the professors smoked in class. While against the published rules, I don't remember anyone getting suspended or punished for smoking in high school.

Here we got about 6" to 8" of snow. We were well stocked for a three to five day entrapment -- cigarettes, Dr Pepper, fully charged Sony Reader, wine, beer, cheese, and a bit of food.

03-03-2009, 10:23 AM	#47
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Here in Virginia cigarettes are still "reasonable" so a lot of folks stock up here and then sell them in higher tax areas like Maryland, Penn, New Jersey, and New York. There is a major underground economy in cigarette smuggling and every time they raise the price the smuggling gets worse. They (who ever "they" are) have all of these wonderful studies that say that bar and restaurant business will increase if smoking is banned, they fail to realize that each owner already has the right to decide that issue for themselves. Many restaurants in this area are "no smoking" by their own decision. Many also fear to implement that ban because they know that their patrons will just move elsewhere. When Maryland passed a statewide ban many Maryland restaurants near the Maryland-DC line closed because their patrons simply moved to one on the DC side where they could smoke. We smoked in class when I was in college -- even the professors smoked in class. While against the published rules, I don't remember anyone getting suspended or punished for smoking in high school. Here we got about 6" to 8" of snow. We were well stocked for a three to five day entrapment -- cigarettes, Dr Pepper, fully charged Sony Reader, wine, beer, cheese, and a bit of food.